Prior to being kidn*pped, I hadn’t had much of a social life. It wasn’t on purpose, I was just shy. Even with Charlotte, I’d find myself listening to her talk on and on about her thriving social life—cheerleading, student council, different boys she liked—and it began to dawn on me that I’d never actually expressed myself. I think it's because of my lackadaisical attitude that she had somehow jumped to the conclusion that I simply liked what she liked.
I realized this only after she’d told Ethan that my favorite type of pizza was meat lovers. He’d asked out of the blue at lunch and it had been completely off topic which had won him a dirty look from Charlotte and a curious look from Matt. Charlotte’s favorite pizza was meat lovers, mine was pepperoni and mushroom. Literally, that
